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Mega Man Discussion / Re: Mega Man Fan Game Collection Topic

« on: December 28, 2015, 06:31:55 PM »

I diiiiiiid iiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttt

final update (probably), version 1.4

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CHANGELOG

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BUG FIXES
- Fixed a bug where the burstchaser cheat would constantly drain your Rush Coil energy.
- Fixed a bug where the credits would overlap on Hard mode.
- Fixed a crash bug in the Gallery.
- Fixed a bug where you could jam yourself into a wall with Rush Jet.
- Fixed a bug where Magic Drawing would disappear if you had the "centaurflash" cheat on.
- Fixed some cheat menu errors.
- The "you unlocked" screen no longer keeps showing up on subsequent playthroughs.
- raocow now shoots cats while equipping raocow coil/jet.
- Fixed a bug where the Adamskis would face the wrong direction sometimes.
- Fixed a bug where combining the "romhack" and "wowunusedstuff" cheats would crash the game.
- Fixed a bug where you could get blown into walls if you paused the game while you were in a fan's range.
- Fixed the wonky hitboxes of Angry Sun's fire shield and Obama Head.
- Fixed a bug where you could permanetly freeze Sheep Man, Napalm Man and Flash Blade with the Illuminati Tape.
- Fixed a bug where Toss Tortoise would get stuck in the floor on Hard Mode. (pyro you're drunk go home)
- Fixed a bug where Scribbles would randomly respawn out of nowhere.
- Fixed a bug where Pukapellies would never respawn.
- Fied a bug where boss health in the Special Stage would stay constant through death.
- Fixed a bug where Patrick's health would stay constant through death.

NEW ADDITIONS
- Eddie now shows up in some stages to give you items.
- raocow can now use the Omega weapons.
- raocow's weapons now become B-Balls with the "what" cheat on.
- raocow can now use the "romhack" cheat.
- All of raocow's weapons now turn huge with the "hugeproblem" cheat.

TWEAKS
- Hard Mode has been COMPLETELY rebalanced, with changes to tons of enemies, bosses, and every single stage to make it less bullshit.
- Made the pathway to the Shot Limit Plus upgrade more obvious.
- Make tweaks to the weapon demonstrations for the homing Robo Punch, Robo Laser, Illuminati Tape, and Milk Tornado.
- Metal Pump's attack on Hard Mode has been toned down significantly.
- Toss Tortoise in general has been toned down on Hard mode.
- Spell Card has been buffed to shoot bullets in tons of different directions.
- Hammer Smash has been buffed to have better attacking angles.
- Thomas Launch starts moving downwards instead of upwards when fired.
- raocow has a new sprite for his coil utility.
- Thomas Head now bounces on springs.
- The hitbox on the fire from Firetellies, Shigarakies, etc. has been adjusted.
- The Angry Sun's fire shield has had its health reduced from 3 to 2.
- Illuminati and Doodlebob go into their critical modes much later now.
- Doodlebob has a bit of a cooldown period when he hits the ground on Normal.
- Finally updated the title screen to say 2015 instead of 2014.
- The game now stops if the window isn't focused.
- Added a version number to the title screen.
- Various other minor tweaks.

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Mega Man Discussion / Re: Mega Man Fan Game Collection Topic

« on: October 29, 2015, 12:41:14 AM »

I made a tumblr blog for the square root games, so I'm moving over there for everything! http://theimaginarymegaman.tumblr.com/

Also if the thread hasn't been updated, Super Fighting Robot is done now.

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Mega Man Discussion / Re: Mega Man Fan Game Collection Topic

« on: May 29, 2015, 03:17:54 PM »

Quick update for Square Root of Negative One, to fix a particularly nasty bug. An update with more content will be coming shortly.

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Changelog:

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- Fixed a bug where the Rebound and Commando Cannons wouldn't be affected by the new character's weapons.
- Fixed a bug where you could get trapped in a room in Wily 3.
- Fixed some unfair level design.
- Fixed not being able to change screen size after loading a file.
- Fixed the speedrun mode Wily Castle intros.
- Fixed Flash Blade requiring all shots of its weakness in the new mode.
- The character select now takes you to the file menu instead of the stage select when you press confirm.
- Tondealls have 2 health instead of 3 now.
- The MEGAMAN 2 font is included with the game now.

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Mega Man Discussion / Re: Mega Man Fan Game Collection Topic

« on: May 27, 2015, 06:55:37 PM »

AFTER FAR, FAR TOO LONG.

MEGA MAN: SQAURE ROOT OF NEGATIVE ONE VERSION 1.3.

I kind of maybe went overboard with this update. Want proof?

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WARNING: All save files from previous versions will be rendered unusable with this update. Sorry about that!

- All Mega Man Eternal music has been replaced at the request of Daniel Page/Pagewizard.
- Fixed a bug where the homing Robo Punch would chase after bullets.
- Fixed a bug where the charging sound wouldn't play during weapon demonstrations.
- Fixed a bug where you could cause Toss Tortoises' rolling sound to play forever.
- Fixed a Flamer being activated offscreen and playing a sound in Chimerabot Milk.
- Fixed a bug where you could get stuck in screen transitions with Rush Jet.
- Fixed Cutman's tracker turning around the wrong way.
- Fixed a bug where if you revisited Illuminati's stage and died the music would not start again.
- Fixed a bug where the ? symbols weren't displayed in the right weapon slots.
- Fixed a bug where the Air Break would behave strangely around walls.
- Fixed volume issues with Plant Man's music.
- Fixed a bug where you could freeze Crash Sheep forever.
- Fixed an offscreen bug in Chimerabot Milk.
- Fixed a bug where you could get caught in the gears in Toss Tortoise/Chimerabot Plant Man.
- Fixed a crash if you were killed in the boss fight of Wily 3 while Patrick was still alive.
- Fixed a bug where Rush Coil would carry over on a ladder.
- Fixed a game crashing bug if you died to Thomas in his stage.
- Fixed the green tracking enemies from Chimerabot Plant Man and Wily 2 sometimes crashing the game.
- Fixed a bug where the coal spitters would not shoot if you were on the same level as them.
- Fixed a few offscreen walking bugs.
- Fixed some invisible spikes during the Toby ride in Thomas.
- Fixed a bug where the death spikes after Plant Man's defeat would only become solid and not actually turn into blocks.
- Fixed a hole in the wall in a room of Wily 2.
- Fixed a bug where some of the minibosses would be unaffected by Flame Shield's thrown projectiles.
- Fixed a bug where Milk and Bubble Nitro could get stuck on the ceiling.
- Fixed a misplaced checkpoint in Illuminati.
- Fixed a bug where Rush could get reflected off cracked blocks.
- Fixed a bug where the game would crash when Toss Tortoise was hit with his own weapon.
- Fixed a bug where you could get stuck on the top of the screen during the cracked block section in Plant Man's stage.
- Fixed a lot of out of bounds glitches with Pit Rescue.
- Proto Man and Rush will now only start vertical movement when their teleport animation is over.
- Air Commando will respawn properly FOR REAL now.
- Hopefully fixed a bug where the start jingle for a Robot Master wouldn't play on some computers.
- Hopefully fixed a bug where Rush Jet would glitch sometimes if you moved it up or down.
- Spike Guard now hopefully knocks you back slightly to prevent you from getting caught in spikes.
- Thomas Heads, Subelis, Wheelies, and Rolling Turtle now all have proper collision with springs.
- Scribbles now appear white in any stage other than Doodlebob or Doc Doodlebob, to make them easier to see.
- Magic Markers no longer reflect your bullets.
- Even more tiles have been tweaked, added and removed to various stages.
- The Lost has a longer cooldown between attacks.
- Charge Man no longer has a soft weakness to the charged Robo Punch.
- Cut Man waits slightly longer before popping up after the duck warns you.
- Removed Milk's top spray attacks.
- Milk now shoots a top spray when hit with the Illuminati Tape.
- Illuminati Tape no longer stops you on the ground.
- Illuminati Tape, Flame Shield, and the charged Robo Punch have new sound effects.
- The save screen has been remodeled, displaying almost all items now, including number of E-Tanks, lives, and W-Tanks, and the fortress progress.
- There are now 4 save slots.
- Autosaving has been removed - you have to manually save now.
- All of your weapon energy is recovered in between the fortress stages. The rewards in the Wily stages have been changed to reflect this.
- Updated the weapon demonstration for Burning Coal.
- Mega Man is slightly shifted upwards when he's absorbing the bosses' power.
- Made some more secret paths more obvious.
- Various Quint fights have been tweaked to shoot different projectiles.
- Quint now drops a health pickup in Wily 4.
- Tweaked the behavior of the coal spitters so that they shoot in your direction more often.
- Rolling Turtle ?, Robo Punch ?, Pencil Bomb ?, Yahoo Barrage ?, Illuminati Tape ?, and Burning Coal ? have been tweaked notably.
- Many major shortcuts have been patched.
- The music will now resume after Proto Man has teleported away in Wily 4.
- Cut Man no longer does contact damage.
- Charge Man is less weak to Milk Spray.
- Made some more alternate paths more obvious.
- Added a few background details in various stages.
- Illuminati's tape stun time has been toned down significantly.
- Thomas now only shoots 2 stones at a time instead of 3.
- Added tons of new sound effects to the Chimerabots.
- Quick Solar's flames now move faster.
- Crash Sheep's clouds now last for longer.
- Metal Pump now has a sound for his attack, his attack now shoots 12 bullets instead of 8, and he always shoots in midair.
- Bubble Nitro can no longer be stunlocked by the Illuminati Tape. His Wheel Cutters also do more damage.
- Wood Chill now only shoots one Chill Spike that sticks to the ground.
- The first fortress boss has better sprites now.
- The third fortress boss has a different sound for one of the attacks.
- Wily Machine Phase 1 has modifications to its old attacks. It moves slower to give more dodging room. It also has different sound effects for every attack.
- Wily Machine Phase 2 has been completely overhauled.
- You can now switch weapons in between screen transitions and when boss healthbars are filling.
- An options menu has been added. You can change screen size, difficulty, controls, and turn on Speedrun Mode.
- A new Speedrun Mode has been added. This mode makes unneccesary animations like the boss intro and READY screens skippable or entirely removed. It also makes health and weapon pickups fill instantly.
- A new menu appears when you load a file instead of going directly to the stage select. This menu allows you to view your collection and change options among other things.
- Wily 5 has been merged with Wily 6 and completely overhauled.
- The ending has had an extra scene and a cast roll added to it. You can also get a good ending by finding the new friend both times.
- A new friend has appeared in Thomas' stage and Wily stage 4...
- A new playable character has been added! Unlock him by completing the game with the good ending. This character has an entirely new set of special weapons to boot!
- Added a special stage! This stage is very long and hard and filled with tons of gimmicks and all eight Robot Masters from the game, but there are plenty of checkpoints. Teleporters to it are hidden in each of the Robot Master stages.
- A new "Hard" difficulty has been added, upgrading enemies and bosses and sometimes adding new ones! You can choose "Hard" before starting a new game. To show that you're playing on Hard, your healthbar will turn red.
- Many other fixes, small additions and tweaks that I forgot to document or were too small to be worth documenting.

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Please report bugs found, especially out of bounds glitches.

EDIT: I forgot to include the MEGAMAN 2 font that I used in this update. Otherwise some text will appear like crap. You can get the font here if you don't have it: here.

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Mega Man Discussion / Re: Mega Man Fan Game Collection Topic

« on: April 17, 2015, 11:57:57 PM »

Here's version 1.2 for Square Root of Negative One! This update has 12 new art books, buffs to 7 of the 8 Robot Masters, and a ton of little adjustments and bug fixes.

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Changelog:

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- Added weapon demonstrations.
- Mega Man now absorbs the bosses' power after their defeat.
- Fixed a bug where Milk would glitch after hitting it with the Illuminati Tape.
- Fixed a bug where if the Wily stages were open you couldn't use the exit utility. It was supposed to just not work in the actual Wily stages.
- Fixed weird flashing spikes in Toss Tortoise.
- Fixed a bug where in some parts of some stages (notably the second room of Wily 4) would play the select sound if you pressed left or right.
- Fixed a bug where Sumatrans and Rolling Turtle would react to destroyed cracked blocks.
- Fixed a bug where if you hit "Continue" in Wily 5 you would continue in the refight room with all of your progress saved.
- Fixed a bug where the green tracking enemies would randomly disappear.
- Hopefully fixed a bug where Milk would just get stuck sometimes.
- Burning Coal now shoots five coals and can be aimed up or down to change vertical reach.
- Hello is less hilariously weak to the Milk Spray to make him more of a challenge.
- The first fortress boss will now still divebomb you if you hit him with his weakness.
- Mega Man is now properly colored during the ending.
- Gave better hints to where some secret paths were.
- Added a checkpoint in Angry Sun's stage.
- Angry Sun's shield now has 3 health instead of 4.
- Fixed a bug where you could get stuck in the refights.
- RushJet1 is now properly credited in the credits. Sorry!
- Hopefully fixed a bug where you would land on Rush Jet when you shouldn't have.
- Replaced some enemies in the Hello item area.
- The ring miniboss in Angry Sun keeps his rings down longer.
- Fixed random tile errors.
- Fixed areas where you could scroll the screen when you shouldn't have.
- Fixed Air Commando's bombs going backwards at some point.
- Fixed Air Commando jumping before his Commando Bomb patterns are finished.
- Fixed all Battons being 8 pixels higher than they should have.
- Corrected the extra life sprite.
- Hello's arena is now bigger.
- Credits are included in the Readme file.
- Some minor tile additions and removals have been made in various stages.
- Fixed a glitch where a Plant Man clone would appear at the bottom of the screen in the boss chamber in his stage.
- Added 12 new books hidden in various new areas. Some books have also been moved.
- Many boss changes to make them harder. Specifically:
  - Hello shoots the Yahoo Barrage at you upon landing, and he jumps higher to accomodate this. His Ninja Suit attack is faster. He attacks faster in general. The Superball attack comes faster.
  - Thomas always causes rocks to fall and his coal attack is faster.
  - Milk's column attack is faster, jumps less before attacking, and waits less after landing. It also occasionally spits out some milk upwards which will come down on top of you.
  - Charge Man moves faster.
  - A tracking crosshair now follows you during the Cutman fight.
  - Toss Tortoise will now try to slam you instead of jumping at you.
  - One of the first fortress bosses' attacks is harder to dodge. Another attack also now bounces around instead of just moving in your general direction. It also has a new attack.
  - Angry Sun now blasts fire at you upon hitting a wall.
  - Doodlebob now shoots bombs more often.
  - Illuminati's energy bar attack is faster, has a different sprite, and lasts for longer. His crosshair attack now shoots two more vertically moving crosshairs. His Illuminati Tape now actually freezes you.

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Mega Man Discussion / Re: Mega Man Fan Game Collection Topic

« on: April 16, 2015, 11:12:12 PM »

Yes, I did properly credit you. I should include a text file with the credits in it as well.

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Mega Man Discussion / Re: Mega Man Fan Game Collection Topic

« on: April 09, 2015, 01:07:43 PM »

A quick update for Square Root of Negative One: https://www.mediafire.com/?kyuorpwa9dj2wiu

This update fixes a crash bug with Toss Tortoise and includes a few other small level & graphic modifications as well.

EDIT: Small fix applied to Milk. Please redownload the update if you have downloaded already.

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Mega Man Discussion / Re: Mega Man Fan Game Collection Topic

« on: April 06, 2015, 09:50:31 PM »

Well, here you go.

This game started as a for-fun joke project in Blyka's engine. Then, over the course of 8 months, I somehow finished it. I bring you Mega Man: Square Root of Negative One.

Note that I'm awful at spriting; that's why there are non 8-bit sprites. All the music was also cribbed from various sources (mostly 8 bit remixes found on YouTube). I'd like to get feedback on everything minus the graphics and music, like the level design, weapons, bosses, etc. I'm looking to improve on this as well, so if there are any problems or glitches, please report. Thanks in advance.

Features
- 17 stages to blast through
- 8 new special weapons + 2 abilities for Rush
- 8 secret permanent upgrades hidden in the Robot Master stages
- 32 Info Books hidden in the stages to collect
- Four save files
- Normal and Hard difficulty options
- An unlockable extra character

Download (version 1.45)

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Mega Man Discussion / Re: Random annoying things in all mega man games.

« on: April 05, 2015, 01:35:54 PM »

MM1: Sniper Joes, Footholders, forced Magnet Beam usage, the bosses not dropping health pickups in the Wily stages, Ice Man and Elec Man taking 1/3 of your healthbar with one hit.
MM2: Yoku Blocks, quick lasers, the entire fortress especially Buebeam Trap, and Crash Bomber and Atomic Fire being awful weapons.
MM3: Various hitbox issues and the depressingly short fortress.
MM4: Up n' Downs.
MM5: The wavebike and almost all weapons being terrible.
MM6: Blizzard & Plant taking too much ammo.
MM7: Mega Man's sprite feels bigger than it should be. Also, Rush Search takes 15 years to finish.
Never played 8 or Bass and I'm not motivated to do so.
MM9: The lasers in Wily 4, they feel like they're only there to waste your time and/or Concrete Shot energy. Also, if you go to the shop while in the fortress you have to do the fortress over.
MM10: Up n' Downs. Commando Man's stage. Waiting for Sheep Man to come down. All the weapons being gimmicky in some way.
MMU: Yoku Man is an abomination. The first two fortress bosses are pretty bad too. Stages are way too long and filled with way to many spikes.
Rock Force: Does the plot count?
MM Revenge of the Fallen: Stages are way too long and filled with spikes.